Russian Frontier.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 4 November 1914, Page 5

Russian Frontier.

: FIGHTING AT BUKOLARJEVO. FIVE DAYS' ARTILLERY FIRE. TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. IA BARRICADE W DEAD BODIES. 20,000 GERMANS SLAIN. Received 4, 12 40 a.m. Petrograd, November 0. Details of the Bukolarjevo fighting show ttiat the Russians wero entrenched on 'high ground on the western side of a narrow lake. The Germans concentrated their reserves and siege guns from Konigsberg, believing the Russians were weakened owing to reinforcing the Warsaw line. ■ Artillery fire was continued for five days, but the aeroplanes were unable to locate the Russians owing to the mist.

Tlie final assault was made on Saturday, after a snowstorm.

Tin- Germans, sacrificed line after line untliT the murderous lire from the raa-chine-guns. At one spot there was a barricade of dead, which impeded the Russian fire.

At a corner of Yost Bukolarjevo 4000 German-Head were cbunted.

Despite shell-fire, the Germans entrenched the west side of the lake, but the Siberians, on Saturday afternoon, were ordered to dislodge them,' and succeeded after three bayonet charges. Ma:iy of the Germans were paralysed by M;,> cold. Many prisoners were taken. The elderly Landsturmers and the boys of lfi have no winter clothing, while the Russians are wearing sheepskins. , It is estimated that 20.000 Germans were killed at Rayou anil Bakolarjevo since the 23th, the total casualties being vuknown^

Til 13 RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS. A ! RIM BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. "NO ROMANCE IN MODERN WARFARE." Received 3. 5.15 p.m. London, November 2. A correspondent, describing the Russian Headquarters Stall'; says:—''There is no romance about modern war, no galloping aides, no vibrating excitement. War is now a 'huge business enterprise. The headquarters are situated in a secluded spot in Western Russia, with a number of switches connecting with the nv'.in line. Here are living quietly and prii.vfully a group of a hundred men, composing the General Stuff. A few panting automobiles are dashing here and there, and 2000 Cossacks Beyond, antl a hundred miles from this scene of tranquility, extends the enormous chain of the Russian front, every point of which is connected by telegraphs and these cars, litre, free from the hurlyburly. the brains of the army command u perspective of the whole theatre of

A Danish newspaper correspondent at Berlin nays' the city wears the usual autumn aspect, with gloomy weather, slippery pavements, and fog, pierced by a profusion of arc lamps. ,

THE GERM ANT RETREAT. Petrograd, November 2. Near Warsaw a peasant found huge. niounSs surmounted by crosses and German helmets. He "dug and discovered piles'of ammunition, besides German quick-firers. Reports from the Vistula front' show that the Germans have been thrown back to the vicinity of tfie Warta Riter, marching fifteen miles daily for a week over execrable clay sloughs.